What's the most important invention? (protector, computers, internet, best)

[SakuraNam]

- What invention do you think is the most important? And how come?

Best wishes,

SakuraNam

[Charles]

The cup?
The wheel?
Viagra?

[gymbuff]

To me it's the automobile. It just revolutionized everything; travel, leisure, work, etc.

[JBrown]

movable type / printing press (Guttenburg I believe)

prior to this knowledge was handed down by word of mouth.
Books were hand written and very few and far between...unavailable to all but a very select few people of importance.

A knowledge explosion quickly followed. EVERYTHING we take for granted followed that.

[plwhit]

Intercontinental air travel

[Tek_Freek]

Weapons for hunting. Without them I doubt we would have survived long enough to become what we are.

Then agriculture. It allowed man to stay in one place and create societies that were (more or less) stable.

[Xanathos]

I'm going to go with the polio vaccine. Had it not been invented, society itself would have crumbled.

[joey2000]

The wheel, tools, and printing press are typically the answers "experts" give, from what I hear. And I'd have to say they should make the short list. The lever and pulley are also up there. Missiles (you could include arrows in there), dynamite (and its successors), various medical discoveries (germs, vaccines etc) are also huge. More recently, the radio, car, TV, and computers for sure. All had huge huge impacts.

[tuteishungry]

Originally Posted by SakuraNam

- What invention do you think is the most important? And how come?

Best wishes,

SakuraNam

The internet and divorce.

[DewDropInn]

The slide rule.

And the plastic pocket protector.

They got us to the moon.